Choosing a set of horse clippers suitable for nervous horses and ponies is key to giving them a much more relaxed and stress-free clipper experience.
What to consider when choosing horse clippers for Nervous horses and Ponies?
Horses that have been badly clipped with blunt clipper blades or have been roughly handled and rushed during a horse clipping session may well be understandably wary of being clipped again.
If the horse is sensitive to the noise, choosing a set of quiet horse clippers or trimmers will help with this.
We would recommend light duty clippers as being the most suitable horse clipper range to look at. Light Duty horse clippers are smaller to hold and quieter to use than the larger horse clippers found in the medium or heavy-duty range of clippers.
It may take some time to gain the horse’s confidence, particularly when they have had a bad experience, but patience and the right horse clipping equipment will make the job safer and more achievable.
Our choice of horse clippers is shortlisted from the Light Duty Clipper range. They have a different blade system to the larger clippers and take the snap on, tension free, blade system. For body clipping, there is a wider snap on blade and for trimming and tidying and for doing the fiddly areas, there is a wide choice of narrower blades to choose from.
Light Duty horse clippers are quiet to use with minimal vibration. Both of these attributes are worth considering when choosing a horse clipper for any purpose but particularly when the horse is sensitive to noise, nervous, young, or flighty.
